Good evening and Happy New Year beautiful fans and followers of Dark City Brewing Company! Kevin here, thanking you for stopping by for the read. I will try to be as brief as possible. We've got some funtivities coming up for our 3 Year Anniversary week and I'll get into all of those in detail very shortly but first I want to address the "New Year New Me" subject line.

At this point you already know that we say it every single year, we are revamping things, coming out with new branding, new beers, new events, etc. This year is simultaneously no different and WAY different. This year will mark our biggest revamp yet.

It is with a cuvée (blend) of powerful emotions, mostly excitement and optimism, that I announce that as of January 1, 2019 Dark City Brewing Company will be under new ownership. 2019 will usher in a ton of changes and a new era of artfully crafted beer will begin on the corner of Second and Main in Asbury Park, NJ.

Turning this dream into a physical reality has been the most exciting and trying journey of my life. Spending months before we opened marching in and out of these doors, pouring blood sweat and tears into this location as this place transformed from my imagination into a living, breathing, thriving entity in a community I care so much about - is tough to describe with proper grammar. The fact that this little team and this little place are the first of it’s kind in a city with such a deep and rich history of creativity is unreal. Since the doors opened there have been three years of continuosly coming through these doors to work, create, share, struggle, learn tweak, repeat.

I want to thank all of the amazing fans, followers, friends and new family that I have made along the way who believe in this little thing. I am beyond excited about what the future holds and you should be too. The company is being handed over to someone very near and dear to me and the whole project, Stephen Bohacik, a long time co-owner and the head brewer from day 1. Dark City is in incredibly capable hands, the same hands that have made all of the beers you have come to know and love thus far.

Come out for our 3 year anniversary in the tasting room on Saturday 1/5 and Sunday 1/6 to send me off and let's close this chapter and open a new one together! Here’s a look of what we’ve got coming up for the anniversary week:

1/3 - Release of DCBC3 and Second & Main cans

1/4 - Special variant tap list

1/5 - Special variant tap list, sour heavy.

1/6 - Special variant tap list, stout/barrel aged beer heavy.

1/9 - Beer & Donut Pairing 5 (SOLD OUT)

1/10 - Paragon Tap & Table takeover, 4 lines (all specialty beers)

Thanks, as always, for the read. I look forward to hanging out and raising a glass with you in a few weeks!

Side Piece cans and kegs have been hitting spots all over NJ for the last few days. Below is the list of spots that got them, most deliveries went with Charrette, Social Mosaic and Summer’s Edge cans as well.

Gallo's Wine Cellar

Joe Canals Iselin

Buy Rite Union

Buy Rite Cliffwood

Buy Rite Holmdel

Bottle King Livingston

Bottle King Hillsdale

Bottle King Glen Rock

Bottle King Glen Ridge

Bottle King Chatham

Bottle King Ramsey

Bottle King East Windsor

Bottle King Middletown

Bottle King Mansfield

Bottle King Wayne

Bottle King Morris Plains

Bottle King Hillsborough

Wine Barrel Maplewood

NJ Wine Seller

Shop Rite Wallington

The Asbury Hotel

Ferrucci's Market

Wegmans - Bridgewater

Wegmans - Manalapan

Wegmans - Ocean

Wegmans - Hanover

Wegmans - Princeton

Farmingdale Liquors

Meyers Liquor Outlet

The Thirsty Quaker

Jersey Fine Wine - East Brunswick

Spirits Unlimited Jackson

Gerards Wine & Spirits

Max's Beer Wine & Liquor

Gary's Wine Hillsborough

Martins Liquors

Bourbon Scotch & Beer Lakewood

DRAFT SIDE PIECE CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES (BESIDES THE DARK CITY TAP ROOM)

McLoones Asbury Grill

Revolution Brew House

Talula's

Maloney's Pub

Blend Bar & Bistro

Just Jake's

Tre Pizza Freehold

Jack's Goal Line Stand

Cross & Orange

Salt Gastropub

Winberie's Princeton

Wildflowers Too

Tavern on the Lake

It will be hitting more places throughout this week and next week prior to Thanksgiving. We will be updating and reposting this list, so keep checking back. As always, we recommend you call your store first to make sure there is still some in stock.

PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS: Our Philadelphia distributor, ABV Beverage, just picked up some cases of Side Piece and Charrette cans. We will be adding the list of where they end up as well.

The new cans are rolling out this week, below we will have the full list of drops that have been made already and the ones coming up today and hopefully tomorrow (likely Thursday because of the snow storm). For those of you wondering why our cans look different, here's a link to the blog post all about that. Before we get into the list, we'd like to remind you that you should call the store first to make sure the beer is there and in the system.

Received Cans:

Bourbon Scotch & Beer - Lakewood

Farmingdale Liquors

Spirits Unlimited - Point Pleasant Beach

Spirits Unlimited - Jackson

Wine Outlet - Manasquan

Wine Outlet - Point Pleasant Beach

Meyers Liquor Outlet

ShopRite Liquors - Neptune

Egan's Spring Lake Liquors

Modine - Asbury Park

Gary's Madison

Gary's Wayne

Wine Barrel - Maplewood

Total Wine - West Orange

Total Wine - River Edge

Portside Liquors

Union Plaza Liquors

Buy Rite of Cliffwood

Buy Rite of Holmdel

Circus Liquors - Newman Springs

Gallo's Wine Cellar

Bell Liquors - Long Branch

Wine World - East Brunswick

Buy Rite of Milltown

Blend Bar & Bistro

Total Wine - Cherry Hill

Roger Wilco - Pennsauken

Joe Canals - Lawrenceville

Wegmans - Ocean

Wegmans - Mt Laurel

Arriving Today:

Wegmans - Woodbridge

Wine Library - Springfield

There are still a number of stores throughout the state that will be receiving the product, so this list will be updated and posted again with *UPDATED* in the title. We apologize if your store isn't on the list yet, we're spreading it out the best we can while simultaneously doing keg deliveries. The last deliveries will be Monday 3/12 and Tuesday 3/13, we will re-post the list at that time.

Again the reminder to give us a little head start to get to today's spots and please call your store first to confirm the product is in the building and in their system. Thanks for the support and happy hunting!